Materials from the papers of this nineteenth-century Madison County, Alabama, attorney who drafted a controversial will for wealthy planter Samuel Townsend which manumitted certain slaves and designated them as Townsend's primary heirs. Selected items include Townsend's will, a deposition given by S.D. Cabaniss concerning his role in the estate, and a report by Rev. William D. Chadick discussing the prospect of settling the newly-manumitted Townsend heirs in Ohio .

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Documents written by Samuel Richmond Caffee. There are also documents written by others about Dr. Caffee.

Four photographic albums from 1902 depict different aspects of coal and iron production of the Central Iron and Coal Company in Alabama; from mining to building a furnace, and transporting the material by train, as well as workers living areas, offices, and stores .

The short-lived Confederacy produced more than 7,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, pieces of sheet music, pictures, and periodicals. All of the publications produced in Confederate states not held by Union forces are known as Confederate imprints. The printed music included songbooks, sheet music, and broadside ballads. Songsters, inexpensive collections of secular song lyrics, were not a popular book genre in the south until after the Civil War began. However, Confederate publishers put out more songsters during the four years of war than they had during the preceding four decades. The lyrics held within the songsters, many of which were patriotic, helped to keep up southern morale. soldiers comprised much of the audience for morale-boosting publications such as songsters.

The University of Alabama yearbook, The Corolla, was first published in 1893 and has been published every year since that date. Various issues are currently being digitized. To learn how you can help, visit the Corolla Digital Initiative web site.

This collection from the 1920s includes Claudia Merle Summerville's photo album, letters from Miriam Cunningham, and pictures and photo album of Frances Guess. This collection documents a period when Summerville and Cunningham taught school at Highland Institute in Guerrant, Kentucky.

Documenting the daily activities of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama coed, member of Kappa Delta sorority, and 1916 University of Alabama graduate, these diaries present an interesting view of college life and dating culture in the early twentieth century.

The Hugh Davis Papers document the life of a 19th-century attorney and plantation owner in Marion, Alabama. The digital collection includes three of his farm journals, containing records regarding slaves and plantation life as well as daily entries for farm operations for the years 1848-1862.

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The collection contains letters to and from Denton regarding business matters, as well as various documents and maps relating to his business in Mobile. Agricola Wilkins, acting as Denton's agent, wrote a significant portion of the letters, which describe both Wilkin's and Denton's business endeavors in Mobile. After Wilkins left Mobile in 1840, other individuals assumed the role of agent for Denton and continued the correspondence regarding his Mobile property. In addition to shedding light on Denton's business affairs in Mobile, the letters in this collection provide lively and detailed descriptions of life in Mobile in the 1830s and 1840s, when the cotton market dominated the city's financial landscape. Letters also include descriptions of yellow fever outbreaks and destructive fires in Mobile, a steamboat journey from Mobile to Wetumpka, Alabama, and frontier life in Pontotoc, Mississippi.

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Sponsored by The University of Alabama Student Government Association, the student-run Emphasis Committee organized annual symposia that featured such speakers as Robert F. Kennedy, Abraham Ribicoff, Dean Rusk, Strom Thurmond, and Roy Wilkins. Represented here are select programs, digital audio and transcripts of speeches. RealPlayer is needed for playback of the speeches. Click here to download the free version of RealPlayer.

The John Collier Foster Papers contain material from 1841 to 1892 with the bulk ranging from 1889 to 1892. A large portion of the collection contains his sermons from his time at Grant's Creek Baptist Church of Christ and New Hope Baptist Church. In addition to sermons, the collection includes other material relating to the Baptist church in late nineteenth century Alabama, including Foster's daily journals of pastoral activities, membership letters, and printed material about Baptist doctrine. The collection also includes material relating to John Collier Foster's wife Georgia Ann Maharrey Foster and the Foster family.

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The pamphlets were used to spread the word of revolution, but never created with the intention of lasting over 200 years. This ephemera was digitized from the over 300 pamphlets from the period of the French Revolution housed in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library's Rare Books Collection. The pamphlets include writings by some of the best known players of the French Revolution and Directory periods, including Robespierre, St. Juste, Desmoulins, and Danton.

Includes correspondence, diaries, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of this notable family, including Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance for the Confederate States Army and president of The University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian for The University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle. The papers also include Gayle family materials.

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A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents. Griffin states that he has traveled fifty miles in flight from Indians, who killed more than 400 people in five days. On August 30, 1813, Creek Indians under the leadership of William Weatherford, also known as Red Eagle, attacked white settlers at Fort Mims near the convergence of the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers, killing approximately 500 people. Although Griffin and his family survived, they lost their crops, livestock, and most of their household goods. This attack was part of the Creek Indian War that lasted from 1813-1814 when Creek Indians attacked white settlers who were moving into Creek lands. The Creek War ended on March 27, 1814, when General Andrew Jackson defeated Red Eagle and his warriors at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama.

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A continuing gift of Union Springs, Alabama native Dr. Wade Hall, this massive collection is a sweeping portrayal of Southern History and American culture in word, picture, and song. A portion of this incredible donation is sheet music from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century representing all styles, including ballads, popular and patriotic music, show tunes, country, western and music relating to American wars complements the blues, jazz, gospel, popular sound recordings from the early 1920s to the late 20th. century. This online selection contains only items published prior to 1923.

This ninety-five page diary spans the years of 1871-1872 in the life of this young woman living in Madeira, Ohio. Diary entries reveal that she took great joy in outdoor winter activities such as ice skating and going for sleigh rides. Her diary for this short time period shows an intelligent, educated, witty young woman who spent only a minimal amount of time engaged in domestic duties. Most of her short entries describe leisure time spent with friends and family. She received many male callers in this short time period and corresponded with several. The latter portion of the diary includes many entries describing her time at art school, perhaps in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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This collection consists of four letters (two holograph and two typescripts) written on United States Senate stationery by Joseph Forney Johnston from March 26 - April 8, 1910 to various people regarding his support of the Telepost Bill. The fifth letter (typescript) dated April 10, 1910, also written on United States Senate stationery, was written by his secretary, Thomas B. Stallings. This letter also states the Senator's support of the Telepost Bill.

This collection consists of a letter written by Francis William Kellogg to the Secretary of the United States Navy recommending Malcolm Maurice Moore to the Naval School at Annapolis.

A historical work of art, in copper-plate etching, containing forty plates, illustrating the life of the Union Armies during the late Rebellion. Etchings drawn by artist Edwin Forbes (1839-1895). During the Civil War, Forbes was hired by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper to cover the Army of the Potomac from 1862-1864.

This collection consists of one letter written by Francis S. Lyon, dated March 3, 1837, to M. Dickerson, Secretary of the United States Navy. In the letter he recommends that Dr. C. William Tait to the position of assistant surgeon in the Navy. He states that there have been no appointments of this kind made from Alabama and hopes that Dr. Tait will be allowed to be examined by the first available board to demonstrate his qualifications. The letter is also signed by Reuben Chapman, Joab Lawler, Dixon H. Lewis and Joshua L. Martin, all Congressmen for the State of Alabama.

This collection consists of one letter dated January 28th written and signed by P. Lockett, private secretary to Governor Andrew B. Moore thanking Joel E. Mathews of Cahaba, Alabama for his generous gift. The newspaper clipping, which does not identify what newspaper it is from or when this clipping was printed, states that a letter dated January 20, 1861, from Joel Mathews of Dallas County was found in a batch of old papers. The clipping indicates that the letter covered a check for $15,000, payable in gold to A.B. Moore, then governor for the defense of Alabama. The clipping ends More than 20 years have elapsed, the $15,000 went up in blood and smoke, the patriotic writer, and the no less patriotic Governor have gone the way of all flesh; but the bold letters conveying the gift, are as fresh and defiant appearing, as if the transaction were only yesterday.

This collection contains bills of lading, receipts for freight costs, receipts for passage, advertisements, freight lists, receipts for storage, and accounts of sales. Most of the documents pertain to shipping lines within, Alabama including Montgomery to Mobile, Selma to Montgomery, Mobile to Selma, Mobile to Demopolis, and the Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers. It also includes a few documents concerning the route from New Orleans to Mobile, and Columbus and Aberdeen, Mississippi, plus receipts from stagecoaches, warehouse and storage companies, and railroads.

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A collection of letters to his wife, Hattie E. Norton, Box 89, Adrian, Michigan, written from Decatur, Stevenson, and Huntsville, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee. Describes his and his regiment's activities in holding Decatur during the summer and fall of 1864 and the evacuation of Decatur and Huntsville in late November, as General Hood's army moved north into Tennessee. There are no letters for the period from late December 1864 until May 1865.

Most of the letters are written from Decatur. Norton describes living conditions, the layout of camp, his quarters, and fortifications about Decatur. Includes news of his health (he may have suffered from malaria), rumors of Confederate troop movements, news of camp, including a raid on a sutler and complaints of late pay. Several times he explains that news of his regiment's activities in the papers at home is highly exaggerated. The letters from May 1865 were written from Huntsville, where his regiment was engaged in rounding up stray Confederates and bushwhackers, taking paroles, and speculating on the regiment's mustering out.

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"Notes on Choctaw Indians, their language, etc."

Late 19th century ledger with handwritten notes regarding the history, legends, significant members, and language of the Choctaw Indians. A significant portion of the book deals with the Choctaw language. The book also contains two type-written pages of information about the Choctaw. The back cover of the book includes the name of the author.

Type-written book by R.D. Spratt on the history, legends, significant members, and language of the Choctaw Indians. The book contains photographs pasted onto pages. Attached to the endcover is a letter to Mary Gorgas from Wade Coleman that also includes photographs.

Peck served as president of Alabama's Constitutional Convention of 1867 and was Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court 1867-74. This is the text of the speech he gave to the Constitutional Convention in 1867.

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Photographs taken in late nineteenth-century Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and surrounding areas document the lives of Julian C. Perkins, his wife Mary (Mamie) Perkins, and their children Edwin, Brook, and Julian.

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Letters written from Colbert Shoals and Florence, Alabama, to a business partner about digging canals around shoals on the Tennessee River. Petrie discusses sickness, heavy rains, high water, and lack of funding.

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Claudius Ptolemaeus, or Ptolemy (around 83-168 A.D.), was an astronomer and mathematician living in Alexandria, Egypt. His work summed up the geography of the known world in the second century A.D. Ptolemy systemically listed the latitudes and longitudes of some 8,000 places in Europe, Africa, and Asia. His work represented a major advance in the science of mapmaking and, despite its errors, retained its authority for almost 1,400 years. It survived for centuries through manuscript copying and was put into print in 1482, all the while expanding as geographical knowledge increased. This edition, published in 1511, is the first to include a bit of North America.

PBO is a collaborative IMLS National Leadership grant funded project (2003-2007) between The University of Alabama and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It features 19th and 20th c. book covers with rich metadata in a searchable database along with a multitude of other materials including galleries, essays and teaching tools.

During his many travels throughout the United States and Canada, Alabama Geological Survey botanist, Roland Harper, collected railroad timetables as souvenirs of his trips. The railroad timetables date from 1887 to 1962 and many provide maps of the locations.

Before it became a rallying cry and part of a title for a best-selling book, Rammer Jammer was The University of Alabama's celebrated humor and literary magazine. Published between 1924 and 1956, the Rammer Jammer captured a spirit and pride in The University of Alabama through jokes, articles, cartoons and photographs. Among the many contributors to the magazine over its thirty-two years of publication include some of UA's most notable alums including Harper Lee, Vic Gold, Gay Talese, Albert Boutwell, Grover Smith, Carl Elliot, and Mary Harmon Black (the future Mrs. Paul "Bear" Bryant).

Performance recordings of organist Dr. Harald Rohlig, retired Professor of Music at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama. Most recordings in the collection were made at Memorial Presbyterian Church, Huntingdon College, or St. John's Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Eugene Allen Smith Collection spans more than four decades from the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. The collection depicts Smith's numerous field trips as a professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at The University of Alabama from 1871-1913, and as State Geologist from 1873-1913.

Civil War diary of George S. Smith, sergeant in Company C of the 48th Ohio Regiment, covering his service in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas, 1863-65.

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The Majorie L. Smith Slide Collection depicts changes to cotton agriculture in the early 1960s. This collection is comprised of 71 color slides taken by Majorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama showing various stages of cotton production; from picking cotton by hand to machine harvesting and processing in the cotton gin to making the bales ready for market.

This collection is comprised of 30 photographs depicting antebellum architecture in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the 1920s. Photographs were taken by Sydnia Keene Smyth for her master's thesis in 1929.

St. John's Episcopal Church, Montgomery , Alabama. St. John's Parish was organized in 1834, and the first church was built in 1837. The current building was erected in 1855. The earliest extant records date to 1848. Included are memberships, marriages, baptisms, confirmations, deaths, funerals, and other records.

A letter dated 23 December 1912 to T. K. Oglesby, discussing naval and submarine warfare during the Civil War.

A scrapbook containing photographs, letters, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, activity programs, patches, magazines, military insignia descriptions, and other miscellaneous items. The scrapbook focuses on the activities held at the service men's center rather than Northington Hospital. Some of the newspaper clippings, however, do relate to the latter. The scrapbook is not arranged chronologically.

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This collection contains digital resources that document the history of The University of Alabama since it opened in 1831. A variety of resources in different formats depict the people, organizations, places, and events that shaped its history as it evolved and grew from an all-male institution with a small enrollment to a diverse student population of more than 20,000 students.

Civil War diary of a Virginia native who later settled in Alabama. The entries are limited to 1863.

A nineteenth century manuscript French/Choctaw dictionary.

In 1796, French general and military engineer Georges Henri Victor Collot descended the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on a spying mission from the French government. Returning to France in 1800, Collot died in 1805. His Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale was published in Paris in 1826. We bring you the atlas.

A letter dated 5 April 1935, to James A. Anderson regarding the raid on Tuscaloosa, Alabama by Union Army forces under the command of General John Croxton in April 1865. The author, at the time seven years old, witnessed the incident.

Confederate General Joe Wheeler wrote to John Calvin Brown, a Major in the General Confederate Army, from the U.S. House of Representatives.

Correspondence and miscellaneous clippings of this Mobile, Alabama author, which consists of two series: Personal correspondence and miscellaneous clippings. The personal correspondence series contains 20 original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustus and J.L.M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Prominent correspondents include: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (confederate general), J.L.M. Curry (educator, congressman, Baptist minister), and Norfleet Harris (congressman, U.S. Consul at Leeds). The clippings series contain four photostatically reproduced items. These clippings include requests by Mrs. Wilson for assistance in preserving graves and erecting monuments of the Confederate dead.

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The collection documents the establishment of Woodward Iron Company industrial sites throughout Alabama; including industrial photos detailing construction, operation and workers everyday lives. Workers everyday lives photos address the personal side of the self-contained iron company with pictures of school houses, commissaries, Christmas events, living quarters, and include photos of other furnace sites in the state. Woodward family photographs begin with Joseph Hersey Woodward, founder of the Woodward Iron Company, and continues through his son Allen Harvey "Rick" Woodward and grandsons Joseph Hersey Woodward, II and Allen Harvey Woodward, Jr. The collection documents numerous hunting trips, and a trip on their boat the "Rickwood" to Florida, as well as other outings, and family and friends.

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Funded by an NEH grant, this project focuses on black working class social history of Birmingham, Alabama prior to World War II. It explores the implications of the immigration of blacks from the rural Deep South to urban metropolitan areas and for understanding the social history of first and second generation black wage earners within the context of urban-industrial development and social change in one New South city.